OCEAN CITY — The six candidates for the four open City Council seats along with Mayor Rick Meehan, who is running unopposed, weighed in this week on last month’s pop-up rally.
The Dispatch hosted on Tuesday a virtual town hall meeting (full video of the event can be viewed on the newspaper’s website) and posed questions to the candidates on a wide variety of issues, from the recent pop-up car rally event, the crime wave in June, expanding the police department, sports tourism and economic development and many more. The candidates also fielded questions submitted by the public.
This year, four at-large City Council seats are up for election on Nov. 3 and the field of six candidates includes incumbent Councilmen Tony DeLuca and John Gehrig along with newcomers Peter Buas, Nicholas Eastman, Daniel Hagan and Frank Knight. Incumbent council members Dennis Dare and Mary Knight opted to not seek re-election, guaranteeing at least two new faces will be added to the council next month.
The following serves as a transcription of the conversation on the pop-up rally.
The more you fight the worse it will get…15 years of this and still fighting. Speed bumps, road closures, etc. What was that number knight mentioned…80,000? 80000 vs how many leos? Doesnt work. Lucky things werent burned down.
Need to figure a plan to make money folks….resort town…revenue generator? Hello thats your job. Get more input from myrtle beach…hell every beach on the eastern seaboard. Its winter time…do your damn jobs. And why share everything too? Military training includes never telling adversaries your true plan. Why would u want them to prepare? Cmon man!